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The Divine Matrix (Paperback)
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The Divine Matrix (Paperback)
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Loot Price R599
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You Save R124 (17%)
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Dialogue among religions has always been challenging. Today, the
questions are becoming more fundamental: are the various traditions
- Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Tao - even talking about the same
thing when they speak of Nature, or God, Emptiness or Brahman? The
Divine Matrix represents a bold scholarly attempt to provide a
framework for discussing theseand other - questions that will keep
the interreligious dialogue project from grinding to a halt. In The
Divine Matrix philosopher and theologian Joseph Bracken first
locates the Infinite as transcendent source and goal of human
activity as the notion common to virtually all the major world
religions. He suggests that the Infinite is prototypically
experienced not as an entity but as an ongoing activity - the
principle of activity for all beings (God included). This idea is
consistent with the notion of eternal and continuous motion in
Aristotle, with the "act of being" (actus essendi) in the theology
of Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckert, and with the ground of being
of Shelling and Heidegger, as well as with Whitehead's definition
of "creativity". Bracken goes on to show that this idea is implicit
in descriptions of Brahman in the Hindu Upanishads, in the
experience of pratitya-samutpada ("dependent co-arising") in
classical Buddhism, and in descriptions of the Tao in Tao Te Ching
and Chuang Tzu.
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